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One Thing I Don’t Miss About Scootering
Back in 2010, fourteen years before the crash that ended the “scooter” part of BurgerScoot, I would ride around Sacramento enjoying my newfound freedom. (I had stopped driving many years before, and my modes of transportation were limited to bicycling, riding Sacramento’s abysmal Regional Transit system, or having either of my sons or my wife… Read more
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Stephan’s Cure for Hiccups: A Six-Sentence Story
It was an elementary schoolmate, Stephan, responding to my cries of “I hate the hiccups,” who told me the sure way to cure the hiccups: swallow three full mouths of water upside down. It sounded like a cruel joke: have someone gulp a mouthful of water, bend down as if the fellate themself (though I… Read more
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Gambling is the Third Rail of Baseball, But…
“Without integrity, the game of baseball will cease to exist,” he said. “Without integrity, how will fans ever trust the purity of the game itself ever again? A purity built on the principle of fair play.” – Marcus Giamatti (son of A. Bartlett Giamatti – MLB Commissioner, 1989) A couple of years ago, I was… Read more
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“Pavement checking” Pies: A Six Sentence Story
Jimmy stopped by my house with a key lime pie for my family. When I thanked him for his generosity, he smiled and said that this was not the original pie he planned on dropping off. Before placing the pie in a pink box, he had to examining the bottom of the tin, but while… Read more
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Four Women & One Bird Shit
I recall watching the Mike Nichols 1971 film Carnal Knowledge in or around 1980 at the Showcase Cinema, a repertory theater in Sacramento that is now a parking lot. I remember wondering if I would ever see the kind of action the principal actors were getting. Up to that moment, I was quite the loser… Read more
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